Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get. - Steve Earle 1 Share Now -
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. - Steve Earle 2 Share Now -
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. - Steve Earle 3 Share Now -
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that. - Steve Earle 4 Share Now -
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. - Steve Earle 5 Share Now -
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that. - Steve Earle 6 Share Now -
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. - Steve Earle 7 Share Now -
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. - Steve Earle 8 Share Now -
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical. - Steve Earle 9 Share Now -
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I've done it, and there's consequences, but it can be done. Death you're not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it. - Steve Earle 10 Share Now -
